impulse-factor

title	Impulse factor
tags	basic

Impulse factor

The impulse factor is defined as the ratio of peak amplitude and mean of absolute values.

$$ \text{ImpulseFactor} = \frac{\max |x|}{\frac{1}{N} \sum_{i=0}^{N-1}{|x[i]|}} $$

Applications

• Fault detection in bearings

References

• Caesarendra, W., & Tjahjowidodo, T. (2017). A Review of Feature Extraction Methods in Vibration-Based Condition Monitoring and Its Application for Degradation Trend Estimation of Low-Speed Slew Bearing. Machines, 5(4), 21. https://doi.org/10.3390/machines5040021
• https://de.mathworks.com/help/predmaint/ug/signal-features.html